Over 360 General Practitioners provide primary health core services to individuals and
families in those areas. Many individuals visiting GPs experience mental health
difficulties ranging from mild and transitory distress to severe, enduring and disabling
mental illness.
In keeping with the paradigm shift towards community and primary core, underlined
by most of the new policy documents, the SWAHB supports a community core model
where the majority of people s health needs, including mental health, will be provided
within primary core . Moreover, res ponding to mental health difficulties and disorders
also requires a continuum of interventions that ore available with in both general
practice and specialised mental health settings.
In order to sustain this preferred model, it become evident that a comprehensive
examination of the current mental health service delivery in general practice was
required . Despite the key role of general practitioners in the provision of mental health
services in the Irish health core system historically, little is known about the extent and
types of mental health services provided in primary core. Until now most of the data
has been derived from research conducted in the UK. This lock of crucial information
prompted the SWAHB and the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) to conduct a
research project.

Over 360 General Practitioners provide primary health core services to individuals and
families in those areas. Many individuals visiting GPs experience mental health
difficulties ranging from mild and transitory distress to severe, enduring and disabling
mental illness.
In keeping with the paradigm shift towards community and primary core, underlined
by most of the new policy documents, the SWAHB supports a community core model
where the majority of people s health needs, including mental health, will be provided
within primary core . Moreover, res ponding to mental health difficulties and disorders
also requires a continuum of interventions that ore available with in both general
practice and specialised mental health settings.
In order to sustain this preferred model, it become evident that a comprehensive
examination of the current mental health service delivery in general practice was
required . Despite the key role of general practitioners in the provision of mental health
services in the Irish health core system historically, little is known about the extent and
types of mental health services provided in primary core. Until now most of the data
has been derived from research conducted in the UK. This lock of crucial information
prompted the SWAHB and the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) to conduct a
research project.

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Mimi Copty

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MENTAL HEALTH

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PRIMARY CARE (MEDICINE)

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Mental health in primary care

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Report

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